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Located right across the street of the Tortoise and Hare Statue is the restaurant named The Tortoise and the Hair. In fact, the restaurant named itself after the statue in order to become recognizable to the community. It has been a local favorite…

This statue has stood as the pinnacle of Van Cortlandt Park and the memorialization of it’s legendary cross country course. The statue comes from Aesop’s fable, “The Tortoise and the Hare” and has “slow and steady wins the race” inscribed…

The True Story Book catches the eye with the gilded pages upon a deep royal blue hardcover. Andrew Lang is a poet, novelist, literary critic, and patron to the field of anthropology. The True Story Book is a fiction and folklore novel, a product of…

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Bill Doyle alongside Jeannie Ammermann created this quit. Doyle lost his son Joseph in 9/11. Being apart of the creation process of the quilt was important to him. This was hung up in the 9/11 Museum.

In a lot of Thomas Hardy's literature, such as "On The Western Circuit", he describes beautiful landscapes of Wessex. He created this fictional place in order to make his own histories and stories within a place he created by his own hand. Perhaps…

The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Stetson was published the same year as An International Episode by Henry James. When examining the social constructs at play in a work of literature, one should consider the world in which the work is…

This Year: Next Year is a tale of a passing year. In the book are poems of scenes and narrations that society experiences during the year. Some examples of this are like the morning dawn, the waking of the birds, the first fisherman on the lake, the…

The NYPD provided tight security as the faithful turned out this Christmas Day. CBS2's John Dias reports.

Three Little Maids from The Mikado